Longtime tech industry advocate Carol Henton, an influential voice at the California State Capitol on policy, legislation and other IT matters, is retiring at the end of the month from her position as vice president of state, local and education for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC).
Vendors, bidders and suppliers that do business with the state of California will now be able to register online with the launch of Cal eProcure, California’s new online marketplace for businesses wishing to sell goods and services to the state.
The Nevada Division of Welfare and Supportive Services will use a $1.5 million federal grant to install cloud-based fraud detection services from Pondera Solutions, the company announced on Friday.
The new website, openbudgetsac.org, is built from data about Sacramento’s proposed 2015-16 budget that the city published on its open data website, http://data.cityofsacramento.org. The data previously was available only in PDF format, Code4Sac said.
The $12.3 million project within the Department of Social Services will “create a single case management database to combine intake, scheduling and reporting functionalities into a single workflow.” The work will consolidate the existing four-decade-old mainframe database housed at the Office of Technology Services, and more than 20 ad-hoc applications.
The Department of Social Services, the Office of Systems Integration and the Department of Technology are hosting a vendor forum on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to share their new, modular procurement approach for the Child Welfare System – New System (CWS-NS).
Jan Ross followed John Chiang to the State Treasurer’s Office (STO) in January to be the organization’s IT director – a position she previously had at the State Controller’s Office when Chiang was controller.
In an open RFP, the city of Sacramento is looking for a vendor to "design and implement a natural language interactive voice response system for the 311 Call Center.
Though the city and vendors disagree on reasons for problems, a company executive says her team is focused on working with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection so its portion of the project is a success.
The Department of Technology and the Department of General Services are inviting firms that do business with the state of California to give their input on proposed parameters for the Contractor Performance Evaluation Scorecard (CPES).
California Correctional Health Care Services is seeking a Software-as-a-Service supplier for a solution that will provide approximately 1,400 filers access to electronic filing of Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) Statement of Economic Interest Form 700.
The Nov. 30 technology letter says that California agencies and state agencies must design and develop websites and Web-based applications "that are equally accessible to people with disabilities."
The board’s responsibilities will include analyzing challenges to the free flow of information on the Internet, promoting the development of promising new digital technologies, and examining policies that impact the digital economy on topics such as broadband, cybersecurity and privacy.
The California Department of Technology has responded to questions from prospective bidders interested in the state’s bid invitation seeking vendor-hosted software for human resources tools for agencies and departments.
Victoria Powers has been named an enterprise territory manager covering California state government accounts for Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company.
The Urban Hive, a popular collaborative work space in midtown Sacramento, plans to open a new 40,000-square-foot innovation space downtown during the first quarter of 2016.
The World Food Center at UC Davis is hosting the Food, Ag & Health Solution Summit on Dec. 1-3 where there will be a workshop on precision agriculture, an "idea hack" session and an app hackathon for agriculture. The app hackathon on Dec. 2 is organized by the Apps for Ag volunteer organization. Sponsors also include Intel, the University of California, AgStart and Royse Law Agtech.
Velocity Venture Capital, which for the past three years has operated its Entrepreneurs Campus facility within a converted schoolhouse in old-town Folsom, Calif., is expanding into a new space in downtown Sacramento.
The California Department of Water Resources took initial steps this month toward implementing new water basin boundary regulations. A key aspect of this project is a new Web-based reporting system for boundary modifications. The website comes nearly two months ahead of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act’s Jan. 1, 2016 deadline for new basin boundary regulations.
The World Food Center at UC Davis is hosting the Food, Ag & Health Solution Summit on Dec. 1-3 where there will be a a workshop on precision agriculture, an "idea hack" session and an app hackathon for agriculture. The app hackathon on Dec. 2 is organized by the Apps for Ag volunteer organization. Sponsors also include Intel, the University of California, AgStart and Royse Law Agtech.
The Pleasanton, Calif.-based Nautilus Data Technologies recently showed its 30,000-square-foot Waterborne Data Center fixed to a moored barge. The company has dubbed it the world’s first floating data center.
Katie Curry started work this month with enterprise security company ForeScout, serving as a named account manager for state and local government in the West.
The city of Sacramento has launched a Web-based application to help residents determine how to recycle or dispose of specific items or materials. The searchable “waste wizard” contains information about household hazardous waste, construction materials and other categories.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is hosting a free workshop in Mountain View on Nov. 17 to share information about the NTIA’s Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) and State Broadband Initiative (SBI) grant programs.
CWS-NS, currently budgeted at $449 million, will automate and create a Web-based solution and service-oriented architecture to replace the current CWS system.
